The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-11-02
THINGS TERRITORIAL.

club for next year, and will probably
accept.
We learn that agent Williams, of Booze
man, is shipping about six carloads Of
grain per day from that point. This
grain goes to different points in the ter.
ritory, and from the best information we
can gather IS consumed about as rapidly
as 1t arrives, that Is to say that it is not
being stored d.-IIusbandman.
Benton is determined, if possible, to
not only retain the trade of the north
ern country, but to acquire additional
business from Meagher county. To this
end well matured project is on foot to
bridge the Missouri river, and to make
it free from all tolls. The cost of the
bridge will De $50 1000, and of this
amount $4,000 has been subscribed.
President ]. J. Hill, of the Manitoba,
with characteristic liberality, has agreed
to transport the superstructure of the
bridge free of charge. The bridge will
probably be built this winter, the work
commencing as soon as the river is froz.
EN- over.
Governor Leslie has offered n reward
of 5000 each for the capture and convic
ton of the person or persons who killed
George CARRIER, ranchman of Missonla
county, who disappeared some weeks
ago, and whose body was found last
Friday, with the skull crushed.
John Edmundson has been pardoned,
and is now living with his family in
Deer Lodge. Edmundson was one Of
the Edmundson gang of horse thieves.
When his brother and Con Murphy
escaped from the Jail in Helena, he
refused to go with them. He was con.
victed in the spring of 1885, and SEN
fenced to seven years in the penitentiary.
His health has been very bad, and it
was believed by the prison authorities
that he could not live long. especially if
kept in confinement.
The storm of the 23d was severe all
over the territory. In the Sun River
country and on the Yellowstone the
mercury touched 1Go below zero, and at
Butte it was l3o below. In Helena the
lowest was 80 above zero, and in Boze.
man 40 below.
Tuesday at Butte the Makeup Jim,
Modoc, Mountain Consolidation, and all
other mines included in the Chambers
Syndicate group were shut down. and
the miners received their time. On
Saturday the Modoc, at Meaderville,
belonging to the same syndicate, was
closed down, and the seventy-fve miners
paid of. 1t is not likely that work will
he resumed in the above mines until the
new works at Anaconda approach COM
pletion.
1t is probable that the Montana Cen.
tral will suspend all heavy work, except
ing very deep cuts, between Helena and
Butte, until spring. Work will be re.
snmed in early spring.
Supt. Egan, of the Manitoba, has JUS,
returned from trip over the Montana
extension and brought back with him
some samples OF the countrys' products,
concerning which very little has been
hno"n heretofore. lie brought and has
y" ea',pi'ioh al ms Office vegetables oi
'he 'oliowlng weights: A cabbage 81
po'hos' a tnrnip' ~ pounds; a radlsh
i-a to"hds' Deet' W pounds, and pota'
Toes from pounds to 2 pounds ounces.
mr. Egah soiemnly asserts that the
'"rnip is me smallest that grew in a
pa'ch OF hVe acres. These vegetables
%e'e a'i grown Without irrigation. He
a''o mas s',,'pie o, montana coal which
m '" ~ 1seu as n''''afs posts Tor several
80: e '"o oo noa mo e.pee's 'ne road VIII
% s..,,s Nv" w 1Uoo s"eep anu as many
a'.'o n:" nun "''''a'a this season.
o"ee' 'e's'
me "rahd Lodge l. q. 0. +. met on
wednesday morning at Dillon. Fifty
representatives and officers were present
me statistics presented showed that on
'an ''' 1901, ''e membership was l.
-, n"I',n -"' re'ie's laid iur
coo o,n ." s''oo revenue OF i"d. es
sono WV, Vi ",a""S ana 'a'lliiies
"''n', ~ "''ks' oehriit ia'd 6l5;
p: n.. ' 40 n"e, noa Vi or"'l'' rs III TINS Jirl :
'. "''"' 'i'd i"r relief "f"ihcr